For those of you in Miami, artist  Romon Yang a.k.a Rostarr, who has designed many of the covers for T&S, will be having a retrospective gallery show on October 11th at O.H.W.O.W. / 3100 NW 7 AVENUE / MIAMI / FLORIDA .  Truth & Soul DJs El Michels and Jeff Dynamite will be spinning during the event. UPDATE: CLICK HERE FOR PICS OF THE EVENT

Early on in the 1990s, Rostarr broke through the New York City art scene with his signature trademarks, a guerrilla type of digital art and hand-made graphics. As he evolved from making iconography and logos his need for creative expressiveness led him to engage painting as a new medium with passionate energy. Now a soloist, Yang is evermore a Renaissance-man who has often executed a series of works in several media. Yet, his moving image output doesn't stop there, with a recent screening of the video, Kill the Ego - an audio-visual collaboration with photographer and artist Stephan Crasneanscki at the Centre Pompidou in France, he begins to explore and experiment with new paths in the realm of video art. Even more so, Rostarr continues to surprise us as he removes his newly acquired and validated filmmaker's cap and easily trades it once again for a French artist's beret during a very recent visit to the Nam June Paik Art Center for a massive painting installation. This is reckless abandonment in action.

Indeed, the show, Wreckless Abandon, demonstrates the imaginative ways in which Rostarr has reached across his design output and known creative persona to re-invent his art and himself today. His work here breaks with not just dualities and dichotomies as usual, but transcends as the works embody the creative free spirit needed to surpass resistance of any kind. Rostarr manages to cross the bridge because his visual harmonies are geometrical lines undefined by formulaic patterns. Certainly, this exhibition is not post-graffiti, it's just Rostarr, it's anti-anxiety, call it organic harmonies of the self in re-discovery. My strongest suggestion is this; choose your own title for the show. Walk away with a unique interpretation, juxtapose two dynamic words together or think of one word that has all the meaning you can put into it and that's the show - for you or maybe not.